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Forgot to add – I want the total width to be the same size as span8 + span4 (around 1190px I think).

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The one I actually needed was post-sidebar.php (and not blog-sidebar.php) plus sidebar.php

Everything worked great though so thanks!

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Mehmet Sali, everything’s working fine now. Here’s what I did: Theme Options->Blog->Excerpt and set the value to ‘No’

Now I have the “Continue Reading” button + links on my excerpt + I can put the read more tag anywhere I like and it won’t cut the excerpt length automatically to just 300 characters / 50 words! :)

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Yes, I tried the options “Yes” and “Only for standard format” in “Theme Options > Blog > Excerpt”. I also tried using the “Insert Read More” tag in the WYSIWYG/visual editor and using the built-in excerpt panel in WordPress.

Here’s what I get after trying different combinations:

* I get the “Continue Reading” button but there are no links shown on excerpts (all plain text only) and the excerpt is cut after around 300 characters or 50 words.
* There are links shown on excerpts and the excerpt is NOT automatically cut after around 300 characters or 50 words but there is no “Continue Reading” button.

What I want is: “Continue Reading” button + links on excerpts + no limit to the number of characters or words. I know this is possible because I’ve seen it on this guy’s website – http://www.mooash.me/ (from this thread – http://www.pixelwars.org/forums/topic/shortcode-insert-does-not-work/). Here’s a screenshot of one of his excerpts – http://i.imgur.com/pMrREIs.jpg

It’s impossible for me to get all of that to show on my excerpts no matter the combination of settings that I try.

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Thanks, Mooash! ^^

Yeah, that’s what I’ve been doing but something’s wrong on my end. See: http://www.pixelwars.org/forums/topic/excerptread-more-tag-broken/

I reinstalled the theme on a completely new WP installation (so there are absolutely no conflicts with plugins etc.), posted a 1,000 word count lorem ipsum, and it ALWAYS inserts the “Continue Reading” button after the 50th word no matter where I place it in the WYSIWYG editor.

Oh, well… thanks for the help though!

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Me, too. Shortcode generator still doesn’t work.

Btw, Mooash, how did you get this kind of excerpt to show up on your site – http://i.imgur.com/gRXF2c1.png ?

I’m having trouble making the ‘Continue Reading’ button show up on my site together with the excerpt that has links in it. It’s either I get the button but the links don’t show up (i.e., they’re just plain text) OR I do get the hyperlinks but no ‘Continue Reading’ button.

A few questions for you:

* How do you add your excerpts – do you use the ‘Insert Read More’ tags or do you use the WordPress excerpt panel?

* Can you tell me your settings here please – http://i.imgur.com/tGFRYZM.png (this option is found under Appearance->Theme Options->Blog)

I opened a support thread here but no resolution so far so maybe you can help me instead.

Thanks in advance!

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Give me your email please so I can send you my URL.

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Forgot to add:

4) The “Insert Read More” tag always places itself after around 300 characters or 50 words.

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Hah! I got it! After increasing the body width and reducing the sidebar width with the JS code above, I added this shortcode to my lightbox images:

[row][column width="1" offset="2"][/column][/row]

Now it works great!

I only need help with this one please – http://www.pixelwars.org/forums/topic/excerptread-more-tag-broken/

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Here’s an example – the image is ALWAYS left-aligned and I can’t center it: http://i.imgur.com/qcYK7NU.png

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Nevermind, I fixed it! The correct CSS element is:

.main-navigation ul ul {
width: 280px;
}

Without the “li” :)